The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

The ways we miss our lives are life.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

We can't tell our life from our wish

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

In love there are no friends everywhere where there is a pretty woman hostility is open.

Bad Leadership: When you want to lead people more than to love them.

Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

On your life, underestimating the proclivities of finches is likely to lead to great internal hemorrhaging.

Christ certainly did come to destroy the law and the prophets.

What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?

Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers

Nelson Mandela can rot in prison until he dies or I die, whichever takes longer.

An enemy's gift is ruinous and no gift.